"Green and green, carefree in my heart" comes from Cao Cao, a politician and writer in the late Han Dynasty.
The theme of this short song is very clear, that is, the author hopes to have a large number of talents for his own use. In his political activities, in order to expand his ruling base among civilian landlords and crack down on reactionary hereditary forces, Cao Cao once strongly emphasized that "meritocracy means promotion", and for this reason, he successively issued orders to seek talents, promote scholars and escape.
In fact, "short song" is a "song of seeking the virtuous", and it is precisely because it uses the form of poetry and contains rich lyrical elements that it can play a unique infectious role, effectively publicize his persistence and cooperate with his decrees.
The extended information "Two Short Songs" is two poems written by Cao Cao, a politician and writer at the end of Han Dynasty, with the theme of ancient Yuefu. The first poem expresses the poet's desire for virtue and ambition to unify the world through the singing of banquets. The second song praises Zhou Wenwang, Qi Huangong and Jin Wengong's adherence to the history of the Minister's Day, indicating that they only have the ambition to help the Han Dynasty, but have no intention of representing the Han Dynasty's independence.
These two poems are elegant, solemn, profound and full of emotion. Their political content and significance are completely integrated into the rich lyrical artistic conception, which fully shows Cao Cao's personality, knowledge, ambition and ideal, and his magnificent and elegant poems.
Just like Cao Cao's other poems, such as Good Li Xing, Nine-Nine Travels, and Suffering from Cold, this poem has a strong political nature, mainly serving the political line and strategy implemented by Cao Cao at that time. However, its political content and significance are completely integrated into the rich lyrical artistic conception.
The whole poem gives full play to the characteristics of poetry, accurately and skillfully uses metaphor, and achieves the goal of combining reason with emotion and touching. At that time, Cao Cao was able to achieve the expected social effect according to the special laws of lyric poetry, and this creative experience is obviously worth learning from later generations.
At the same time, because Cao Cao's emphasis on "meritocracy" at that time had certain progressive significance, his highly artistic performance on the theme of "seeking talents" should also be affirmed by history.
References:
Two short songs-Baidu Encyclopedia